Carlos Castaneda Quotes

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

I try not to get too far ahead of myself.

During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

I stand astonished at my own moderation

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.